Posted on July 02 2008, read 0 Comment
Here’s a decent question: What is a good sports fan supposed to think about the ESPYs?
It’s hard to imagine another entity that dominates its field as thoroughly as ESPN handles sports cov
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Posted on June 27 2008, read 2 Comment
This is another piece in an off-season conditioning program relating to legalized wagering on team sports.
The goal of the off-season program is to put the law-abiding team sports handicap
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Posted on June 23 2008, read 0 Comment
We did it!
We beat Texas Tech 50.13 to 35.47.
Who are we? We are the players from the University of Oklahoma, where I played baseball back before the game sounded like wind
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Posted on June 18 2008, read 0 Comment
For your football enjoyment this fall, I have enlisted the help of the most amazing picker I have ever met, seen or heard about.
It is believed by many that the point spread brings each pr
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Posted on June 17 2008, read 0 Comment
Somebody I know has this downbeat off-season story to tell: He is off to Gambler’s Anonymous. It’s that, or lose more money; and possibly, lose a family.
A gambling addiction is not funny,
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Posted on June 11 2008, read 0 Comment
The NBA is pro wrestling with a ball. But the refs aren’t quite as good in the NBA as they are in the grappling ring. Old guys trying to keep up and see what great athletes are doing, what an entertai
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Posted on June 09 2008, read 1 Comment
One best-ever question was answered over the weekend, and evidence will be given about another very soon.
Is Roger Federer the best tennis player ever?
Is Tiger the best golfer ever?
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Posted on June 05 2008, read 0 Comment
I received one of the first pre-season college football polls this week. Florida was said to be a cinch number one; Florida, which season couldn't slow traffic in a school zone, last season. And Texas
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Posted on June 02 2008, read 0 Comment
The other evening there came on the local TV screen a report from the station's sports director, who also worked for a nearby major university, doing game analysis.
First, the sports director d
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Posted on May 30 2008, read 0 Comment
The battle for worst sport ever put on TV begins in earnest this weekend with the presentation of these events: the national spelling bee, the World Series of Poker, the NCAA softball tournament in Ok
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Posted on May 23 2008, read 1 Comment
They’re flying the Responsible Gambling flags at half mast at casinos everywhere: Chuck Barkley got obliterated and has quit betting.
There’s nothing funny about a gambling addiction. A 50
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Posted on May 19 2008, read 0 Comment
Here are 25 reasons why horse racing is the best sport going at the moment.
1. The losers pay the winners in the pari-mutuel gambling system, minus a cut for the house. Just look around. Losers
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Posted on May 15 2008, read 0 Comment
Something to keep in mind during football's off-season (the second and third weeks of May, that's all the off-season amounts to anymore) is how to win more than you lose, where gambling is legal.
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Posted on May 12 2008, read 0 Comment
If you were a college student and your parents were rich and wanted to get you a big-screen plasma TV for your dorm room, so that you could better investigate the educational channels and prepare more
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Posted on May 08 2008, read 1 Comment
Sports are beloved because of their unpredictability, even in the off-season; or, in this case, even in the off-off-off-off-off season.
According to a report in USA Today, Kentucky
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